The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-02


Bunker Hill has debating society to
while away the winter hours.
Clarence Elliott, Of Napoleon, this
season raised 1900 bushels of onions.
A Chautauqua reading circle has been
formed by the Stanton school teachers.
There is now strong odor of gas at
the Jackson we'll, which is down 2,200 feet.
The lumber showers ut Muskegon work
for 30 cents an hour. On the Saginaw
Ri, er they get 90 cents.
Maple Rapids is wrestling with the
question whether night Waterman would
be profitable investment.
Thieves entered the barn of Seth Vro-
man, in Grady township, Kalamazoo Coun-
ty. and stole sixty pounds of peppermint
oil.
Squirrels and other small game are re-
ported more plentiful in Southern Michi-
gan this fall than at any previous time in
many years.
As train was entering East Saginaw,
recently, E. c.. Preston, of Detroit, vas
found dead in his dead. Ths cause was
heart disease.
The recent failure of the Merchants
and Miners Bank at Iron Mountain has
created demand for a sound bank on the
Menominee range.
VIM. Spicer, convicted at the Ka'a-
maZoo Circuit Court of horse stealing, has
been sentenced to the Detroit House of
| Correction for nine months.
The theatorium at the Soldiers Home
is being fitted up with the necessary stage
settings and furniture, and amateur enter
tainments will soon be on the programme.
Hon. VIM. T. Jones, Mecosts County's
representative in the State Legislature. has
purchased the Hewitt property near the Big
Rapids lower depot, and is converting it
into large wood working institution.
Almost the entire peppermint product
of the world comes from three counties in
Michigan and one in New York. About
las, 200 pounds have been raised this year,
which shows falling off of 5000 pounds
| liOuu 'Ac yicIu VI ihSl y car.
BY the for eiture of land grant in
Northern Michigan to the Marquette,
Houghton aud Ontonagon Railroad Com
pany. nearly 100000 acres of land have
been opened to settlement, and the tract
will soon be entirely occupied by home
steaders.
John McNaughton, the Big Rapids
lumberman so terribly mangled by log
ging road accident few weeks since-be-
ing dragged over the ties by the engine-is
recovering. He is still at his camp few
miles from Big Rapids, the danger of NOV
ing him being too great.
An able bodied fish, OF rather eel,
story is told by Z. A. Pomroy, of Jones'
vile. He SAYS the cells get into the tur-
bine wheel at his mill in such great num-
bers that they clog it up SO that it stops.
He repeatedly took two bushels of frag-
ments of cells from the wheel, and finally
decided to inclose it with wire netting.
Mary Harvey, 10 years old, was one of
party OF scholars that marched from the Con-
vent of the Most Holy Trinity to the church
of that name, in Detroit, recently. The
procession had hardly got from the shadow
of the convent when man dashed around
the corner, and, seizing Mary, started down
the street with her. She screamed, and her
fellow students added their cries to hers.
W. L. Ockford rushed to her assistance.
The two men fought for the child. Ock-
ford finally obtained possession of Mary,
who was badly frightened. Her neck was
bruised where the would be abductor had
choked her. The man was Richard Har-
vey, her father. Three years ago Mary's
mother died, and, at the request of her
father, she was adopted by a man AIMED
McGraw. The father wanted to get the
girl back, but McGraw refused to give her
up. The little one is unable to leave her
bed, and serious results are feared.
Probably the most interesting and
valuable curiority in the iremen's museum
at No. 2 engine house, at Jackson, is the
one brought in day or two ago by a
farmer whose name the men did not learn.
1t has been found to be South American
black vulture, though the farmer thought
it black eagle. He said he saw it run
ming about his farm a few days ago, and
chased it into brush pile, where he cap
tured it. The bird is about the size of
hen turkey, and its main color is q rich
blue back, though many of the larger
feathers and plumes are brilliantly colored,
making the bird very handsome one.
The head is small and nearly bald, and
the beak is about three inches long, strong,
and little hooked. About the center Of
the upper portion of the beak is a COM
paratively large hole, cut by nature, nearly
rectangular in form. The bird measures
five feet from tip to tip of its wings, which
are very large and strong in comparison to
its body, showing that it is capable of long
fights and of carrying considerable
weight in its talons. The fremen have
been looking up ornithology, and are sat-
isfed that the bird is fine specimen of
a.